[Chapter-delegates] Appointment of former MPAA CTO Paul Brigner as North American Regional Director of Internet Society

[Livingood, Jason]

>I am profoundly disturbed by the appointment of Paul Brigner as North
>American Regional Director of the Internet Society.
>
>In his previous position as Chief Technology Officer at the Motion
>Picture Association of America (MPAA) he worked for the passage of PIPA
>and SOPA.

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>The effective endorsement of MPAA policy positions by the Internet
>Society with the appointment of Brigner threatens to poison those
>relationships and severely damage the good name of the Internet Society.
>
>I respectfully request that you reconsider the appointment of Paul
>Brigner as North American Regional Director of the Internet Society.

I really hope you give Paul a chance to show you what he can do. He worked
for the MPAA for just one year. COICA, SOPA, and PIPA were in the works
for significantly longer than that so I seriously doubt Paul had any hand
in crafting those policy positions. Working on issues of copyright and
blocking is important to ISOC and having someone with close knowledge of
that seems to me to be valuable.

His full CV is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbrigner which says to me
there is a lot he brings to the table.

- Jason